Meanings
plural panoramas · plural panoramata
- An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC - A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.
- figurativelyA comprehensive survey.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe visual percept of a region
nouna picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekὅρᾱμᾰ“view”
- Englishpanorama
From pan- (“all”) + Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “view”). Coined by Robert Barker (painter) in 1792.
More words from Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic بَانُورَامَا, بَانُورَامَا
- بَانُورَامَا (bānūrāmā)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- بَانُورَامَا (banuramā)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Chinese Mandarin 全景
- 全景 (quánjǐng)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Dutch vergezicht
- vergezichtunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Esperanto panoramo
- panoramounbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Estonian panoraam
- panoraamunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Finnish panoraama, yleisnäkymä
- panoraamaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- yleisnäkymäunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoraamakuvapicture representing a continuous scene
- yleiskuvafigurative: comprehensive survey
French panorama, panorama
- panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
- panoramafigurative: comprehensive survey
German Panorama, Rundblick
- Panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- Rundblickunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- Panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
Greek πανόραμα, πανόραμα
- πανόραμα (panórama)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- πανόραμα (panórama)picture representing a continuous scene
Hindi परिदृश्य
- परिदृश्य (paridŕśya)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Hungarian panoráma, panoráma
- panorámaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panorámapicture representing a continuous scene
- körképpicture representing a continuous scene
- áttekintésfigurative: comprehensive survey
Italian panorama
- panoramafigurative: comprehensive survey
Japanese パノラマ, 全景
- パノラマ (panorama)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- 全景 (zenkei)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Korean 파노라마, 전경
- 파노라마 (panorama)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- 전경 (jeon'gyeong)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Norwegian Bokmål panorama, panorama
- panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
- panoramabildepicture representing a continuous scene
Persian منظرهٔ وسیع
- منظرهٔ وسیع (manzare-ye vasi')unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Polish panorama, panorama
- panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
Portuguese panorama, panorama
- panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
- panoramafigurative: comprehensive survey
Russian панора́ма
- панора́ма (panoráma)unbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Spanish panorama, panorama
- panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
Swedish panorama, panorama
- panoramaunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
Tagalog hilihid, hilihid
- hilihidunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
- hilihidpicture representing a continuous scene
Turkish Panorama
- Panoramapicture representing a continuous scene
Vietnamese toàn cảnh
- toàn cảnhunbroken view of an entire surrounding area
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with panorama
All rhymes →Cite this entry
panorama. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panorama
“panorama.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panorama. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “panorama,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panorama.
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